If you include the sky towers, the Eiffel tower, the colorful airplane propeller or a geometric areas of color composed of the ball scene in the paintings of Sonia and Robert Delaunay to the height of the points of cubism: then all the more surprising, how dark, how grey and how brown with a very small margin of Blue, the first photos of this style, when Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.
as Braque and Picasso in their importance for the art 20. Century are not proving to overestimate the Revolution of cubism in the years 1907 and 1908. Soon, students and relatives were in the spirit of the new art conquered not only a wide range of colors, but a motivic expansion, and participation in the popular Paris salon exhibitions were known.
In contrast to the previous exhibitions , which is restricted mainly to the Work of Picasso and Braque, is in the Kunstmuseum Basel is the field now in the light of the latest research, wide open for artists such as Juan Gris, Raoul Dufy, Fernand Léger, Henri Rousseau and Albert Gleizes; finally, Francis Picabia, Jean Metzinger, Piet Mondrian, and the Delaunay. They took their audacity, the turbulent development of art of the 20th century. Century in advance.
“Bar jeder Vernunft”
In the Basel Show, which measures the precise set of steps, the period between 1906 and 1917, it appears almost each room in a different color tone. The images and spaces not to be colored such as by artificial light. Most of the Museum people use the skylight in the second floor of the new building and the Oil lamps. In two of the three halls of the Scots, but also dense, so not too much light to reach the precious watercolours or drawings that would otherwise be fading.
The pictures of the color values of the rooms. It begins with a stone sculpture by André Derain and a male head from the Spain of the 11. Century, as well as a wooden statue and a mask from Africa. Because Picasso and Braque, based their ideas not from the dignified vocabulary of classical, but from a primitive art referred to, as it had been practiced in Africa or in the European middle ages.
what you created – for example, the massive and extremely muscular “Large Nude” – Georges Braque, with his almost Baroque joy of curves, received, as so often in the history of art from one of the sharpest critics of its name. Cubism was in the eyes of the art critic, Louis Vauxcelles, to whom we owe this term as a style designation, and even dismissively (“It is wogs art, bar jeder Vernunft”).
In the second room of the exhibition invited visitors to take a walk in the countryside, because both Picasso as well as Braque, tried to the footsteps of Paul Cézanne to the pyramids as a landscape painter, atop rooftops, and fragmented forests and fields, as if they would take the world by the light waves rhythmically breaking Prism true. The excellent eye-catcher in this room is the monumental, amazing area took still-life “Pain et comptoir aux fruits sur une table”, which belongs to the Kunstmuseum Basel.
An almost religious atmosphere here.
And we enter the sanctuary of cubism. Here we are surrounded by images of women and men who have lost the analytically incisive brushstrokes of Picasso and Braque practically everything Individual. You have broken down the figures dissolved into a sea of cubes and geometric were beige, grey, brown, white, sometimes bluish areas, the bales usually in the center of the image and towards the edges from fraying.
An almost ecclesiastical atmosphere comes here, because about a hundred years after its creation, this art is simply to die for. Although it is not at all connotes religiously, it seems to stir on spiritualized way to the innermost things. Like chapels of the two adjacent rooms, where the best of the Best, created the Braque and Picasso between 1910 and 1912, a concentrated appearance. To see about the “man with a pipe” from the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Knox, or the “accordion player” from the Guggenheim Museum in New York, both of Picasso. And in these rooms the Basel collection and the Centre Pompidou, to see where in the last autumn of a more comprehensive, but also a bit excessive Version of the exhibition was, very much present.
musicians, women, alcohol, glasses or bottles were at the beginning of this painting in which the artist creating enigmas of the real in the intimate setting of their studios, and disassemble and, thus, what holds the world together, on the track. The images from the Kunstmuseum Basel – think of Braque’s “The Portuguese”, “pitcher and violin,” or to Picasso, “The Aficionado” – to be greater in the illustrious company of masterpieces from all over the world.
A face is painted over
The treasure trove of key works from that time, the Museum has due to the Basel banker Raoul La Roche, the can be described as the most important collectors of this art direction. He lived in Paris, in a Villa of Le Corbusier, and he gave a large part of his collection to the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Musée national d’art moderne, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and the Kunsthaus Zürich.
Very nice that you can show in Basel, the enigmatic portrait of the writer and art collector Gertrude Stein – a century of image from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, painted by Picasso in 1906. More than a year and a half he has worked, Gertrude Stein sat for an hour, day, week long model, only to see that the artist of old, and to solidify it, finally, an impenetrable, cubist mask left her face countless times over.
The image loads to a last stop, before the stunning, Eva exhibition, curated Reifert breaks into the Open, Colorful and outrageously-Free: Braque, Picasso and Gris emerged after its ascetic beginnings with a myriad of playful collages, and Bricolagen, in which they advanced the Surface of the image to the sculpture and beautiful and totally new objects created.
Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Fernand Léger and Jean Metzinger conquered then, with pictures like “The Bullier Ball”, “homage to Blériot”, “houses between the trees” or “dancer in a Café” cubism is the color, which is celebrated in the two last rooms of the exhibition with a colorful and stormy pictures of dance, agreed to a so-wohlgemut, that you will leave elated by the Museum.
The exhibition continues until November 4. August 2019.
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Created: 29.03.2019, 06:12 PM
